Glarus: Facts & Figures
Federal statistical figures have been gathered for the Glarus Canton regarding the most important issues. Even though the life in the canton does reflect the figures, the people here are still familiar enough with one another to recognise the importance of their neighbours beyond their statistical value…
Did you know…?
- 13.9 percent of the canton’s population have a post-graduate degree?
- only 2.6 percent of its area has been developed?
- the Canton of Glarus is made up of 18,175 households?
- the Canton of Glarus has been part of the Swiss Confederation since 1352?
- the Tödi, at 3614 m above sea level, is the highest point in the canton? And that Linth near Bilten, at 414 m above sea level, is the lowest point of the canton?
The figures keep coming
- 85.8 percent of the population of Glarus are native German speakers.
- In 2010, the canton had 38,259 inhabitants (20 percent of them foreigners).
- In 2010, the canton’s import and export volume reached levels of growth well above the national average at 11 percent.
- Of the 19,100 people employed in the canton, 51.4 percent work in the tertiary sector, 42.4 percent in the secondary, and 6.2 percent in the primary (in 2008). The canton’s unemployment rate is usually lower than that of Switzerland’s national average.
- On the some 100 alpine alps in Glarus, about 13,000 animals spend their summer grazing season and about 3,370 tons of milk are processed.
